{"id":27584,"date":"2017-05-30T19:20:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=27584"},"modified":"2017-05-30T19:20:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:20:51","slug":"the-telegraph-cannes-2017-nicole-kidman-channels-toyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-telegraph-cannes-2017-nicole-kidman-channels-toyah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Telegraph: Cannes 2017: Nicole Kidman Channels Toyah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/films\/2017\/05\/21\/talk-girls-parties-review\/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/films\/2017\/05\/21\/talk-girls-parties-review\/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_fb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24869 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"telegraph16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/telegraph16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><strong>Cannes 2017: How to Talk to Girls at Parties, review: Nicole Kidman channels Toyah Willcox in this lifeless sci-fi flick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Derived from a Neil Gaiman short story, this must have felt like an opportunity for provoc-auteur and queer cinema hero John Cameron Mitchell to let his hair down, by resurrecting the anarchic spirit of Derek Jarman\u2019s Jubilee and then staging a Shortbus-lite sex romp with added polymorphous perversity. If this film\u2019s an acquired taste, so is kidney sorbet, or a sponge cake seething with live eels. You get to see Nicole Kidman, in a white electroshock wig, grapple with the part of an angry punk matriarch and yell \u201cshut your gaping gob\u201d at one of her minions. A substitute for Toyah Willcox she\u2019ll never be for the life of her, but the silliness of the casting sums the film up, for good and bad.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/films\/2017\/05\/21\/talk-girls-parties-review\/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_fb\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Telegraph<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannes 2017: How to Talk to Girls at Parties, review: Nicole Kidman channels Toyah Willcox in this lifeless sci-fi flick Derived from a Neil Gaiman short story, this must have felt like an opportunity for provoc-auteur and queer cinema hero John Cameron Mitchell to let his hair down, by resurrecting the anarchic spirit of Derek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,110],"tags":[1749,1748,383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27585,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27584\/revisions\/27585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}